Hello Ted,
2013/9/11 Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> > Hi All, > > About a month ago APC announced they were including MODBUS protocol > support in their new APC UPSes. The technical note on this is here: > > http://www.apcmedia.com/**salestools/MPAO-98KJ7F/MPAO-**98KJ7F_R0_EN.pdf<http://www.apcmedia.com/salestools/MPAO-98KJ7F/MPAO-98KJ7F_R0_EN.pdf> > > "Application Note #176 Modbus Implementation in APC Smart-UPS" > > The APC "announcement" appeared on their site in their user blogs by an > APC employee, here: > > http://forums.apc.com/thread/**5374?start=30&tstart=0<http://forums.apc.com/thread/5374?start=30&tstart=0> > > It states: "we have recently released a firmware update for certain > Smart-UPS SMT models (UPS 09.1)" > > APC made firmware updates to their SMT UPSes for this new protocol, > which are referred to here: > > http://www.schneider-electric.**us/sites/us/en/support/faq/** > faq_main.page?page=content&**country=US&lang=en&id=** > FA164737&redirect=true<http://www.schneider-electric.us/sites/us/en/support/faq/faq_main.page?page=content&country=US&lang=en&id=FA164737&redirect=true> > > It appears from this the affected models are: > > SMT Towers with firmware >= UPS 08.0 > SMT 2U Rackmount > SMT 1U Rackmount (Follow SMX <=1500VA firmware) > > The announcement also appeared on the apcupsd mailing list here: > > http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.**comp.sysutils.apcupsd.user/**month=20130801<http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.apcupsd.user/month=20130801> > > where it was stated that code was available. > > I understand that the Socomec ITyS UPS (2000VA) UPS also uses this same > Modbus protocol. > > Anyway, with all of that said, will the NUT developers be looking into > implementing this support into NUT in the future? > I'd like to say yes, since modbus support in NUT is something planned for years. but sadly, no. for now, I've dumped my preliminary work and a ticket: https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/50 If someone has time + motivation + a modbus dev. (I've currently none of these 3), I can drive him on completing this. Ted > > PS by the way - NUT allowed me to get data out of my 15 year old Compaq > R3000 UPS - I haven't got reporting data from it since NT 4 Server became > obsolete. Many many thanks! cool, I always love to hear that. cheers, Arnaud
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